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对治理神子民的君王来说，诗篇72篇是一个充满希望的祷告。在这篇诗篇的原文中，Shalom是一个关键字，这个字通常被翻译为“发旺”和“平安”。（参诗 72:3、7）平安发旺意味着某些破碎了的东西已恢复原状；你与疾病搏斗，令你非常衰弱、甚至到死亡的地步，当你完全回复健康时，这就是平安发旺的其中一个例子。多年来与家人和朋友完全隔绝、或在忍受了一段极为孤单的日子之后，能够再次与所爱的人围着桌子一起吃饭，是平安发旺的另一个例子。

这篇诗篇胆敢盼望和祈求，平安发旺能够重临整个世界，在公义（与神和好）和公平（与别人活出正常的关系）的背景之下，平安发旺便会实现了。公义和公平相辅相成，它们就像一枚钱币的正反两面。这个重大的盼望和祈求，就是神的平安发旺能藉着合适的君王临到整个世界。

只要信靠基督为君王，我们便能怀着智慧的心生活、辨认出那些地方和环境有破碎的事物、并且寻求重修的方法。

在我们悔改、相信、和追随基督为君王时，君王基督的平安发旺便会降临。我们都按着祂的灵的引导来接受和追随祂作王。

Psalm 72 is a hopeful prayer for the king who rules over God's people. Shalom is a key word in the original text, often translated as "prosperity" and "peace" (see verses 3 and 7). Shalom carries the idea that something broken has been made whole. When you are restored to health and wholeness after battling an illness that has badly weakened you, maybe even to the point of death, that is an example of shalom. Another example could include being restored to a meal around a table with loved ones after being cut off from family and friends for a long time, or after enduring a period of great loneliness.

This psalm dares to hope and pray for shalom to be restored throughout the earth. This happens in the context of righteousness (being right with God) and justice (living in right relationships with people). 

Righteousness and justice go together like the two sides of a coin. The great hope and prayer is that God's shalom comes on the earth through the right king.

Trusting in Christ as King, we can live with a heart of wisdom, identifying places and situations where things are broken, and seeking to make them right.

The shalom of Christ the King comes as we repent, believe, and follow Christ as King. We receive his reign and pursue it in whatever ways his Spirit leads us.